OU Health, Oklahoma’s first fully integrated academic health system, announces a national search for a Vice President Human Resources.

ABOUT OU HEALTH

In partnership with The University of Oklahoma, OU Health offers the state’s only comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics, and centers of excellence focused on delivering the evidence-based healthcare that means the most advanced care and treatment available anywhere. With the state's largest and most comprehensive physician practice, OU Health Physicians are the experts in prevention, treatment, and cures, all while training the physicians of tomorrow. OU Health has 8,200 employees, including more than 1,300 physicians and advance practice providers in Oklahoma’s largest physician network offering a complete roster of specialty care.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Vice President, Human Resources will serve as the strategic HR Leader and voice for all entities of OU Health. This unique organizational lens will be accountable for supporting the ongoing development and execution of our HR Roadmap. This role is the key liaison to “broker” the HR service delivery model that ensures appropriate support of human resource services and solutions are provided in areas such as talent management, total rewards, talent acquisition, engagement, learning, employee health and safety, employee relations, organizational design/effectiveness and workforce development. The incumbent is also accountable to ensure oversight and governance of HR processes, systems, and policies.

EDUCATION

• Education Requirement: Master's Degree: Business Administration, Human Resources, Health Services, or related field.
• Professional Certifications Required: SPHR, SHRM-SCP

EXPERIENCE

• 10+ years of executive human resources leadership experience gain from roles in different levels of size, complexity, and business model maturity.
• Has successfully led complex and system-wide organizational change that is a result of operating model transformation, business startup, mergers and acquisitions, business consolidation, etc.
• Has partnered with business leaders to develop, design, and implement relevant strategic human resources strategies.
• Demonstrated success at managing and developing senior HR functional and leadership capability.
• Led organization design, restructuring and strategic workforce planning initiatives.
• Experience in creating and enhancing organizational culture that deliver higher levels of employee engagement, commitment, and satisfaction.
• Highly skilled in executing “generalist” HR core processes in areas such as total rewards, talent management, talent acquisition, employee relations, employment laws, performance management, employee assessment and development, succession planning and organizational development.

KEY ATTRACTORS TO THE ROLE

• Career advancing opportunity to serve as the Vice President Human Resources leading, implementing, and executing the People and Culture Strategic Work Plan for the state’s only Level 1 Trauma Center and comprehensive academic health system of hospitals, clinics, and centers of excellence.
• A rare opportunity to play a key leadership role in a position where pivotal decisions will define, shape, and elevate the future growth, expansion, and strategy of an evolving system. 
• Join the system’s inaugural CHRO, Jimmy Duncan, in taking OU Health to be Oklahoma’s Employer of Choice and leader in healthcare workforce development for top talent. Duncan has worked extensively in human resources leadership in healthcare including UC Health, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Wellstar Health System, Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Banner Health with a diverse background of business acumen gained from various industries including energy, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing and mining.

For more information or to confidentially discuss this position, contact:

Will McCracken, Senior Search Consultant

Amanda Hargrove, Senior Operations Leader

Ahargrove@Intrustpartners.com

256-509-7009

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